The New York Times announced on Monday that Wendell Jamieson, the newspaper’s metro editor, had resigned after an internal investigation but did not specify the reason for his departure. (NYT)
A spokesperson for the Times confirmed the resignation but declined to offer specifics about the investigation or what led to Jamieson’s resignation. (TheWrap)
Jamieson’s Twitter account has also been deleted. “Leading Metro for the last five years and working with the incredible Times team has been the high point of my professional life. I regret and apologize for my mistakes and leaving under these circumstances,” a statement from Jamieson reads. (Gothamist)
Times executive editor Dean Baquet and managing editor Joseph Kahn announced Susan Chira, a veteran Times editor who was most recently a senior correspondent writing on gender issues, would step in as interim metro editor. The Times is not commenting further on the resignation in order to “protect the privacy of those involved,” the editors said. (Politico)
Jamieson first joined the Times in 2000, where he worked on the metro and style desks, as well as on the now-defunct City Room blog. (HuffPost)